Halo Legends: The Babysitter Impressions
First off, I hope that anyone who wanted their first glimpse at next year's release of Halo Legends saw the incredibly limited premier of The Babysitter, animated by Studio 4°C, on Xbox Live via Halo Waypoint Saturday. It was free for only that day! If you missed it, I'm sure you'll be able to see it somehow in the future.
Ambivalent expectations are abound for how Halo Legends will turn out. The Animatrix was a mostly pretty good rendition of the Matrix world in anime form, and the series' premise made the transition perfectly considering aspects of it were inspired by Ghost in the Shell. We, logically, expected similar results with Batman: Gotham Knight, but it turned out to be mostly wasted potential. Judging the package solely by the quality of The Babysitter would be silly, but I was surprised at how good it turned out to be.
The Babysitter details the story of three Orbital Shock Drop Troopers (aka ODST; possibly in relation to some game) soldiers tasked with the mission of assassinating a Prophet. The mission isn't that big of a deal, if the soldiers' mannerisms are to be believed. But the real problem here is that they're being assisted by a Spartan, soldiers seen as the elite of the group -- but not the Elites, don't you know. Can the soldiers and the Spartan possibly work together? This is the question The Babysitter seeks to answer. And it does! But it's not like I'm going to answer that question here.
It only had 20 minutes to tell its tale, but The Babysitter did that fine. Note the use of the word "fine," as things admittedly played out rather expectantly. Still though, it did its job of being entertaining, which is, you know, fine.
Due credit should be given to the animation, which looks absolutely spectacular in high definition. At times, you'll wish the short took a little longer to pan around the environments so you could take them in entirely. The music is also great, even if they're mainly remixes of existing music from all of the Halo games. It's been said that the franchise's musical score is on par with a number of theatrical films, so it all feels right in place here.
I really hope The Babysitter is, at least, a sign of things to come for the entirety of the Halo Legends package. If you want to see any of the future installments, make sure you look at the official Halo website to see when they're on. Don't miss them! Well, unless you're planning on buying the whole package on DVD or Blu-Ray in February.
Ambivalent expectations are abound for how Halo Legends will turn out. The Animatrix was a mostly pretty good rendition of the Matrix world in anime form, and the series' premise made the transition perfectly considering aspects of it were inspired by Ghost in the Shell. We, logically, expected similar results with Batman: Gotham Knight, but it turned out to be mostly wasted potential. Judging the package solely by the quality of The Babysitter would be silly, but I was surprised at how good it turned out to be.The Babysitter details the story of three Orbital Shock Drop Troopers (aka ODST; possibly in relation to some game) soldiers tasked with the mission of assassinating a Prophet. The mission isn't that big of a deal, if the soldiers' mannerisms are to be believed. But the real problem here is that they're being assisted by a Spartan, soldiers seen as the elite of the group -- but not the Elites, don't you know. Can the soldiers and the Spartan possibly work together? This is the question The Babysitter seeks to answer. And it does! But it's not like I'm going to answer that question here.
It only had 20 minutes to tell its tale, but The Babysitter did that fine. Note the use of the word "fine," as things admittedly played out rather expectantly. Still though, it did its job of being entertaining, which is, you know, fine.
Due credit should be given to the animation, which looks absolutely spectacular in high definition. At times, you'll wish the short took a little longer to pan around the environments so you could take them in entirely. The music is also great, even if they're mainly remixes of existing music from all of the Halo games. It's been said that the franchise's musical score is on par with a number of theatrical films, so it all feels right in place here.
I really hope The Babysitter is, at least, a sign of things to come for the entirety of the Halo Legends package. If you want to see any of the future installments, make sure you look at the official Halo website to see when they're on. Don't miss them! Well, unless you're planning on buying the whole package on DVD or Blu-Ray in February.
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